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The Tip of the Zoidberg
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Season 6 episode Broadcast season 8 episode | |||||
The Tip of the Zoidberg | |||||
No. | 106 | ||||
Production number | 6ACV18 | ||||
Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
Directed by | Raymie Muzquiz | ||||
Title caption | IT'S TENTACULAR! | ||||
First air date | 18 August, 2011 | ||||
Broadcast number | S08E10 | ||||
Title reference | The idiom "the tip of the iceberg" | ||||
Nomination(s) | Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour), 2012 | ||||
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"The Tip of the Zoidberg" is the one hundred and sixth episode of Futurama, the eighteenth of the sixth production season and the tenth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired on 18 August, 2011, on Comedy Central. The crew uncovers a dark secret concerning a covert mission undertaken by the Professor and Dr. Zoidberg many years earlier.
Act I: "We still have three or four coworkers with plenty of spare parts."
Frustrated with Zoidberg's incompetence as a doctor, the Planet Express crew demand Professor Farnsworth to fire him. The professor refuses, and the crew question why Zoidberg was ever employed in the first place. A series of flashbacks reveal that Zoidberg first met and befriended Farnsworth in 2927, during a mission to kill a Tritonian yeti for Mom. During the mission, Farnsworth became susceptible to hypermalaria, a fatal, incurable disease which can either strike instantly or remain dormant for years. As a favour to Farnsworth for killing the yeti and saving his life, Zoidberg agrees to an arrangement: when Farnsworth begins to experience symptoms of the disease, Zoidberg will perform a mercy killing before the disease can fully manifest. As a result, Zoidberg was employed by the professor for the purpose of carrying out the task.
Act II: "Your mistake is being Humans!"
In the present, the professor begins to experience the symptoms of hypermalaria, and insists that Zoidberg must kill him by surprise. The crew catch Zoidberg attempting to murder the Professor, and restrain him with the professor's lab coat and imprison him. Zoidberg notices a single white hair on the professor's coat and deduces that he does not have hypermalaria. Rather, he has contracted yetiism after being scratched by the Tritonian yeti. The illness mimics the symptoms of hypermalaria, but results in its victims transforming into a yeti.
Act III: "Also, the salad's ready."
Zoidberg escapes and goes to Mom, exchanging a coupon for a free tanning session for the yeti's head so that he may use its pineal gland as an antidote. Meanwhile, the professor reveals the truth to the crew, who decide to kill him themselves, using the Murdolator, an elaborate Rube Goldberg mechanical killing machine. Zoidberg returns to announce his discovery to the crew, just as the professor begins transforming into a yeti. Zoidberg forces him to swallow the yeti gland, but this fails and the professor turns into a double yeti. The Murdolator is eventually destroyed and collapses on top of the professor, successfully curing him. As the crew goes to a tanning salon to celebrate, Zoidberg laments giving away his coupon. A grateful Farnsworth offers to treat Zoidberg to a free session, and they both depart as friends.
While originally known as "Nine-tenths of a Zoidberg is Underwater", the episode title changed in the process.
During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released two items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of Triton Base Camp on 3 June and part of the storyboard showing a young Professor Farnsworth and Zoidberg on a Yeti-hunting trip on 4 June.
On 12 August, Comedy Central released a video clip featuring Zoidberg performing surgery on Fry, Leela, and Hermes.[1]
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In its original U.S. airing on 18 August, 2011, the episode scored a 0.7 share among adults aged 18-49, and 1.382 million total viewers. This is down about 80,000 viewers from the previous week's airing of "Fry Am the Egg Man". [2]
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- Mom's real name is revealed to be Carol.
- This episode focuses on the relationship between Zoidberg and the Professor, who are shown to be good friends. This contradicts previous episodes, most notably "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", where the Professor's last words are, "I curse Zoidberg!" Of course, he may have been delirious (considering both the circumstances and the Professor's mentality).
- This episode also jokes around with Zoidberg's medical competence; he is depicted as being (as usual) horrible with humans, but shows himself to be excellent with other alien races, most notably yetis. For example, Zoidberg is able to extract the Tritonian yeti's gland that will save the Professor's life in record time. Mom also says that Zoidberg is "the best there is if you need an alien hacked to pieces!... In the budget category."
- This episode was originally titled "9/10ths of Zoidberg is Underwater".
- Bender uses the death wheel of the Murdolator to chop up the vegetables for the salad, but the two previous kill checks had already put two drops of cyanide on its blades. While the actual quantity of each of those drops isn't clear, it nevertheless means that there would have been a potentially fatal amount of cyanide in the salad.
- Zoidberg causes Fry to lose blood and develop a host of syndromes named after pop culture figures.
- Fry first develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", referring to the yellow skin of characters from The Simpsons. He then says the phrase "Ay caramba!", a catchphrase of Bart Simpson.
- Fry then gets "Garfield syndrome", a reference to Garfield the cat. He looks like Garfield and even says his phrase "I hate Mondays".
- Fry then develops "Muppet gangrene". This causes him to act like Kermit the Frog and say that "It's not easy being gangrenous", referring to Kermit's famous refrain from "Bein' Green". He is also only seen from the waist up, a reference to a long list of popular puppet characters.
- Finally, Fry gets an unknown condition that makes him look like a Smurf.
- Near the beginning of the episode, The Professor and Zoidberg are depicted as feeding mice to owls, similar to how in modern-day life, people will throw bread crumbs to pigeons.
- In a flashback to a military field hospital on Triton, Professor Farnsworth asks, "How bad is it, doctor?" and Dr. Zoidberg responds, "Super bad," alluding to the popular film, Superbad, which premiered a few years before this episode was produced.
- When the Yeti comes out to attack Zoidberg and The Professor, The Professor says "Go, Johnny! Go!", referring to the lyrics of the song "Johnny B. Goode".
- While the Yeti is biting his head, Zoidberg says, "Crunch all you want. I'll make more." This is a reference to the slogan from an advertising campaign in the 1990's, for Doritos chips: "Crunch all you want. We'll make more."
- During Zoidberg's attempts at murdering the Professor, Chet Atkins' version of the song "Mr. Sandman" plays over the scene.
- The Tritonian Yeti, including its poisonous nature, is designed like the Mugato of the Star Trek episode "A Private Little War."
- Zoidberg exclaims, "Great Little Caesar's ghost!" a play on the catchphrase of Superman character Perry White, "Great Caesar's ghost!", and the Little Caesars chain of pizza restaurants.
- The Murdolator is an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.
- Mom's three sons are told to "Stooge out," a reference to the Three Stooges.
- "Stooge out" could also refer to her sons being "stooges", e.g. devoted followers who are used by Mom for her own purposes.
- After her sons leave, Mom says "John Zoidberg...it's been a long time. How've you been?". While perhaps not intentional, this is very similar to the first lines said by GLaDOS in the video game Portal 2. Both characters share a few traits including passive-aggressive behavior and a publicly genial image that hides malevolent motives. Also, Mom's real name is Carol, similar to "Caroline", GLaDOS former human identity.
- When Fry uses the phrase "believable hulk", it's a reference to the double-meaning of the word "incredible".
- Methane is actually odorless. Since it is often mixed with other odorous compounds, people mistakenly assume that it smells bad.
- It is possible that Zoidberg's species is capable of smelling methane.
- When everyone grabs a vial of poison, a sixth gloved hand grabs a vial as well. In the next shot it is shown that this is Scruffy's hand, yet he isn't involved in the poisoning process.
- Scruffy could have been kill check 6 (which seems likely, since the death wheel has six blades).
- Scruffy is wearing gloves when he takes one of the vials of poison, but in the next shot when he commences the mercy killing, they're gone.
- The vegetables in Bender's salad were cut with the blade from the death wheel after the poison had been dripped on it, yet the Professor is seen eating the salad at the end.
- The poison was cyanide and is lethal in doses of 1.5mg per 1kg of body weight. A rough estimate would put only 1.4mg of cyanide on the blades when they cut the vegetables, so there wasn't enough for it to really affect the Professor unless he weighs less than 1kg/2.2lbs.
- Actually with about 20 drops to the milliliter, and a specific gravity of 1.2 for cyanide solution, a drop would weigh around 0.06 grams so two drops would be 120 milligrams. Of course you could also argue that since there are six blades on the death wheel and only two of them were poisoned (assuming Hermes' and Fry's drop went on different wheels), there is a 4 in 6 chance that the blade that cut the vegetable wasn't poisoned although this number become smaller with each vegetable (assuming the previous one wasn't poisoned).
- The poison was cyanide and is lethal in doses of 1.5mg per 1kg of body weight. A rough estimate would put only 1.4mg of cyanide on the blades when they cut the vegetables, so there wasn't enough for it to really affect the Professor unless he weighs less than 1kg/2.2lbs.
- When the crew discover that Zoidberg had sand-crabbed his way out of his surgery, Amy looks out of the window and down to the street below, showing that his surgery is above the ground floor, but the hole he created is full of soil. If anything, the hole would just drop down to the floor below.
- He could've fallen down to the floor below and sand-crabbed out again for the fun of it.
- Mom seems rather surprised to see Zoidberg, but hasn't Mom seen Zoidberg with the Planet Express crew in the past?
- The only other time when Mom and Zoidberg could have interacted was in "Future Stock" and even then they probably did not cross paths as he had sold his shares of PlanEx. Also in the past she may have mistaken him for another Decapodian.
- They are seen interacting in "Three Hundred Big Boys" but Mom never indicates she doesn't recognize him, merely commenting on his "impression" of a poor person.
- Yeti Farnsworth knocks the death wheel off-course, through Bender and off towards a wall, obliterating the Murdolator as it goes, but, when Farnsworth recovers underneath the wreckage, the death wheel is right on top of him.
- When the Murdolator was collapsing, we didn't see where the death wheel landed, so it could have landed on Farnsworth when the camera was on everyone else.
- Bender uses a lighter to light his cigar, but it's been established in several episodes that he has one built into his hand.
- Perhaps his hand-lighter was out of fuel and he simply hadn't gotten around to replacing it.
- After Zoidberg cuts Leela in half, both her tank top and pants are frayed, even though if he only cut her once this could only happen if her pants were attached to her tank top, and if she were cut at the precise place that the two met.
- Unless her tank top and pants overlap, in which case a cut at any point on the overlap would result in the observed fraying.
- At the end, both The Professor and Zoidberg sand-crabbed their way out of the living room but the window shows the exact place and angle down the street when Zoidberg exited out of his surgery.
Mom: Shoot anyone who doesn't obey hard enough.
Mom: [calm] Relax. [Mom begins walking away.] There's nothing unethical about covert biological weapons research. [Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth look at Mom in suspicion. Mom stops walking and turns to Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth.] [angry, screaming] I said, "Relax."
Fry: Careful, Leela! [Leela turns to Fry.] He knows less about Human anatomy than I do. And I can't even find my own uterus!
Fry: It's not easy being gangrenous.
Hermes: I thought you were only gonna take out one vertebra!
Zoidberg: Yeah, but did you ever play Jenga? Sometimes, you pull one and—
[Zoidberg makes an exploding sound.]
Zoidberg: What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.
Man: We're over the drop zone, gentlemen. Might I suggest you jump out the door and poop yourselves.
Fry: I consider myself a reasonable man. Quick with a joke. Slow to anger. But Bender can't go on long car trips anymore an' I say Zoidberg must die!
Hermes: People, please! [Hermes raises his arms.] Let's not overreact— [Hermes' body parts disconnect and fall on the floor.] Death to the crab!
Hermes: Professor, we need to talk! [Hermes raises his right fist.] Man-to-mob.
Fry: You're a terrible doctor! [Hermes has crossed his arms. Fry points at Zoidberg with his right hand three times. Amy puts the kidney in her left pocket with her right hand.] [on camera] Nobody wants to see you ever again!
[Professor Farnsworth enters.]
Professor Farnsworth: Dr. Zoidberg, I want to see you right now!
Zoidberg: You saved my life!
[Zoidberg smiles.]
Professor Farnsworth: Oh, fuff.
[Professor Farnsworth stands up.]
Zoidberg: Yes, fuff.
Zoidberg: Is this one o' those "No means yes" deals?!
Professor Farnsworth: Yes and no.
Fry: I consider myself almost completely ignorant of modern medicine. [Fry points at the Professor Farnsworth Yeti with his left hand.] And I've never heard of Yetiism.
- The flashbacks reveal once again that people in the future do not age the same as people of the 21st century. In 2927, Professor Farnsworth would have been 85-86, yet appears youthful and is healthy enough for the rigors of military duty.
- The tool Zoidberg uses to extract the Tritonian yeti's gland is the same one seen in "The Series Has Landed" when Zoidberg examines Fry.
- Bender once again shows his love for cooking by making a salad before adding his drop of poison on the death wheel. It was established in "My Three Suns".
- Fry once again mistakes an inanimate object for a living alien, having previously made out with what he thought was "the radiator woman from the radiator planet", in "The Lesser of Two Evils".
- This episode establishes the fact that Zoidberg has been working for Planet Express for 80-some years. However, in "Insane in the Mainframe", the crew is celebrating Zoidberg's 10th year at the company.
- The phrase "Great Caesar's ghost" was previously parodied on "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" by Calculon as "Great Shatner's ghost!"
- In The Beast with a Billion Backs, Zoidberg thinks that he is playing deathball for his freedom.
- Dr. Zoidberg's door says "M"D. in "The Duh-Vinci Code" Zoidberg says that his doctorate is in art history.
- Debut: Actual Doctor
- Amy
- Bender
- Professor Farnsworth
- Fry
- Hattie McDoogal
- Hermes
- Igner
- Larry
- Leela
- Mom
- Scruffy
- Walt
- Debut: The Tritonian Yeti
- Zoidberg
Themes visited in this episode include:
- ^ Dr. John Zoidberg, "M"D
- ^ Seidman, Robert (19 August 2011). "Thursday Cable: 'Jersey Shore' Rises; 'Burn Notice,' 'Suits,' 'Project Runway' Rise Too". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved on 29 August 2011.


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Thursday, 01 September 2011 10:48 AM EDT
Despite low prices and a peppy pitchwoman in a polka-dot dress, T-Mobile customers have been fleeing to other carriers in the last year and a half.
T-Mobile's 33.6 million customers may be relieved that the federal government is trying to block the merger, so they can keep their wireless service plans. But in the long run, T-Mobile is in an unsustainable position. Analysts say the company's past decisions have painted it into a corner.
The No. 4 wireless carrier is being squeezed by competitors from two directions. At the high end of the market, it can't compete with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., the market leader and no. 2, respectively. At the low end, T-Mobile is struggling against competitors like Sprint Nextel Corp., which sells government-subsidized "lifeline" service, and MetroPCS Holdings Corp., which targets urban, working class consumers with cheap "unlimited" plans.
Essentially, T-Mobile is seen as a cheap brand by those who can afford better, and as an expensive one by those who pinch every penny.
"We're stuck in the middle from a brand point of view," T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm said in January.
The most valuable customers, the ones who buy smartphones and sign up for two-year contracts with lucrative data plans, are leaving T-Mobile the fastest.
It's not because T-Mobile's customers are particularly dissatisfied with the service -- they like their provider better than AT&T customers theirs, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Instead, the lure of the iPhone and wider network coverage is what draws high-paying customers to AT&T and Verizon.
So, even though T-Mobile is profitable, its revenue is shrinking fast -- in the latest quarter, it was down to the level of 2007.
Customer flight could speed up even more this fall, if Sprint gets to start selling the iPhone, as The Wall Street Journal reported recently. That would make T-Mobile the only one of the four national wireless carriers that doesn't sell Apple Inc.'s coveted phone.
In about two years, T-Mobile will face another problem: limited wireless spectrum, or space on the airwaves. While other carriers have been bulking up their spectrum holdings in the last five years, T-Mobile stayed mostly on the sidelines. That means growing smartphone data use could fill up T-Mobile's airwaves in a few years, according to the company's own estimates.
Even before AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile was announced in March, T-Mobile's corporate parent, Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, said it's not interested in investing more in its U.S. subsidiary. It gave CEO Humm a mission to stop customer flight and start growing revenue, but he'll have to do it with the U.S. subsidiary's own resources.
Recon Analytics analyst Roger Entner traces T-Mobile's current troubles in part to Deutsche Telekom's unwillingness to invest in T-Mobile's spectrum and network in the last few years. It waited until 2009 to start building out a wireless broadband network, several years behind Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Nextel Corp.
Entner said Sprint, the industry's No. 3, is a good example of a carrier that has overcome a lot of adversity. It has slowed subscriber flight in the last few years through improvements in customer service.
"The US market is competitive and companies can come back from near death when they do things right. The problem is that T-Mobile USA's parent Deutsche Telekom is not committed to the US market the same way its competitors are," Entner said.
When the AT&T deal was announced in March, it came as a surprise. Industry rumors, instead, hinted at a linkup between T-Mobile and Sprint. If AT&T fails its appeal, that buzz could reemerge. But T-Mobile and Sprint use different network technologies, which would make any merger difficult.
Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett also thinks the Justice Department's reasoning in the AT&T case would preclude a Sprint-T-Mobile merger.
There would be a silver lining for T-Mobile if the deal falls through. AT&T would have to pay T-Mobile $3 billion in cash and transfer to it some unused spectrum. In addition, T-Mobile would get a renegotiated roaming agreement with AT&T. None of those are likely to change Deutsche Telekom's reluctance to invest in T-Mobile.
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UK watches year's second, low key, royal wedding
Updated: 2011-07-31 10:42
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips married England rugby star Mike Tindall on Saturday - but Britain's second royal wedding of the year was largely a low-key affair, with only a hint of the glamor and excitement of Prince William's showstopping nuptials.
Phillips, 30, who is 13th in line to the throne but does not use a royal title, and Tindall, 32, were greeted by hundreds of flag-waving well-wishers and the sound of traditional bagpipes as they left their wedding service at Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk following a private ceremony.
The often publicity shy bride wore a traditional ivory silk gown and a full-length flowing veil, but posed only briefly for onlookers - and gave her husband a fleeting, modest kiss - as they left the 17th century church for a reception at the queen's Scottish residence, the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Unlike William and Kate Middleton's spectacular ceremony in April, the wedding service led by Rev. Neil Gardner was not broadcast on television and crowds gathered in the Scottish city were warned by police there would be little for them to see.
Members of the public packed along Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the city's famed cobbled boulevard, cheered loudly for William and Middleton, now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they arrived to join the congregation, traveling in a sleek black sedan with Prince Harry.
Middleton, wearing a biscuit colored coat, dress and large angled hat won a warm reception as she offered a wave, as did the queen and Duke of Edinburgh who arrived shortly before the bride.
While the details of Middleton's wedding gown were a closely guarded secret, Phillips - more commonly seen in jeans or sportswear - made an expected choice in choosing Stewart Parvin, a British designer favored by the queen. She also wore a Greek Key tiara lent to her by mother Princess Anne, and Jimmy Choo shoes.
Parvin also designed the queen's apricot wool coat and silk dress.
Peta Hunt, fashion director of You & Your Wedding magazine said the ivory gown hinted at the bride's quirky personality.
"Who else could go to a wedding and have their dress done by the same person who does their granny's? It allowed her to move with ease and grace, but had an element of fun and flirtiness," Hunt said.
The occasion was far removed from April's international spectacle at Westminster Abbey, but neatly reflected the couple's unflashy style. Tindall had even proposed in a modest setting, as he and Phillips curled up on a sofa at home watching a movie.
Before the ceremony, royal officials confirmed that Phillips will keep her maiden name rather than be known as Mrs. Tindall, largely because of her sporting career.
Phillips is known better for her sporting achievements than her royal heritage, as a world class equestrian who is likely to compete in the 2012 Olympics. Tindall - who Phillips met in 2003 in Australia during England's triumphant Rugby World Cup campaign - is a leading rugby player who has captained his country.
The ceremony was the first royal wedding held in Scotland since 1992, when Princess Anne - the mother of the bride - married her second husband, Timothy Laurence. Anne's elder child, Peter Phillips, married his Canadian partner Autumn Kelly in 2008.
Even the prospect of a brief glimpse of the royal family was enough to entice hundreds to Edinburgh for Saturday's wedding, including a few dozen stalwarts who camped overnight to win a front row view.
Waving a Canadian flag, Margaret Kittle, 76, said she had traveled from Ontario, Canada, and staked out a spot on Friday night. "I flew over last Saturday and have been here since last night. I started following the royals after I saw George VI and the Queen back home in Canada when I was 4 years old," she said.
Helen Sutherland, a 65-year-old from Muir of-Ord in the Scottish Highlands, was wrapped in a warm blanket as she waited for a glimpse of Britain's newest royal couple. "It got chilly through the night, but we want to see the bride and her dress. They seem to be a very happy couple," she said.
Phillips and Tindall hosted a glitzy cocktail party late Friday for relatives and guests aboard the former royal yacht Britannia, which they had hired for the occasion. The famous ship, once used by the queen to tour the world, was decommissioned in 1997.
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Pat Miletich's UFC Hall of Fame induction takes place today, July 6, at the UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas...
There's no denying the impact Pat Miletich has had on the sport of mixed martial arts. A former UFC welterweight champion who also led Matt Hughes, Jens Pulver, and Tim Sylvia to world titles as a coach, he is one of the sport's pioneers, in and out of the Octagon, and today at the UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas, he will become the newest member of the UFC Hall of Fame.
So what was his secret? He always believed that his success could be boiled down to one thing: hard work.
"If you're not willing to make your training harder than your fight ever could be, then you're not going to end up at the top," said Miletich. "There's a lot of times in my training when I'm ready to puke, and I'm ready to walk right out of the room, but you've just got to keep going. I think that makes a difference, so you don't mentally fold."
Involved in combat sports since he was a child, first in wrestling, then boxing and kickboxing, Miletich had the work ethic to outperform more naturally gifted competitors, and he also had a keen eye for what was happening on the mat or in the ring.
"I wrestled from the time I was in kindergarten through college and I watched how different coaches had coached in all those different aspects of sports. I took the good aspects of coaching that I liked, because there were coaches that couldn't convey to me correctly the information that they were trying to get through my head, and there were other coaches that were really good at it. I just kind of modeled myself after them, and tried to explain myself (to my own fighters) so that they could understand."
Eventually, Miletich sought an opportunity to put his wits and his fists to use in the budding sport of mixed martial arts and teamed up with Mark Hansen to get started in the gym.
"He was ranked in the top ten among heavyweights in the world, and was a Davenport police officer," said Miletich of Hansen. "He and I were training partners for two, three years at least by ourselves before things got rolling. That was actually the first guy. He was a very dominant fighter and a really powerful guy, an All-American lineman at Northern Iowa."
On October 28, 1995, Miletich made his pro MMA debut with three wins in one night in a Chicago tournament. He continued to build his resume and his fight game on the Illinois / Iowa circuit, going 17-1-1 with the only loss coming against fellow MMA mastermind Matt Hume.
Then the UFC called, and on March 13, 1998, he defeated Townsend Saunders and old rival Chris Brennan (they had fought twice previously) to win the UFC 16 tournament. Seven months later, Miletich was back, this time to fight for the UFC's first lightweight (later converted to welterweight) title. In the opposite corner was scrappy Mikey Burnett, and Miletich eked out a 21 minute split decision to earn the championship belt.
Miletich successfully defended his belt four times over the next two years, defeating Jorge Patino, Andre Pederneiras, John Alessio, and Kenichi Yamamoto, while battling an even tougher foe in the gym – a laundry list of mounting injuries.
Finally, in May of 2001, the longtime champion surrendered his belt to Carlos Newton via submission in what was a shocking upset at the time. Less than two months later though, Miletich was back, knocking out Shonie Carter with a head kick at UFC 32. A rematch with Newton would not be in the cards though, as Miletich's charge, Hughes, seized the belt from "The Ronin" at UFC 34.
"The Croatian Sensation" moved up to middleweight for his next bout, at UFC 36 in 2002, but he was stopped by Matt Lindland and took a break from the game to heal his injuries and focus on his gym, which was occupied at one time or another by such standouts as Hughes, Pulver, Sylvia, Jeremy Horn, Robbie Lawler, Drew McFedries, Spencer Fisher, Josh Neer, Ben Rothwell, Bart Palaszewski, Mike Ciesnolevicz, Rory Markham, Tony Fryklund, and Jason Black.
His philosophy in building his team and his Miletich Fighting Systems approach to MMA was a simple one at first.
Full Fight Collection for UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich on UFC FIGHT PASS
"Even before I won a UFC title I wanted to train people and get people as good as possible as fast as possible," he said. "One, so I'd have good workout partners, and two, because I knew that I wouldn't fight forever and I wanted to develop my coaching skills."
Mission accomplished on both fronts. Miletich's gym became a home for the best of the best in MMA, and there was no room there for egos or primadonnas. If folks like that did show up, they got weeded out.
"There were guys who came out here and didn't understand that mode, and they didn't last. They weren't around for the teammates when they were training and they really didn't put the time in for themselves either," he said. "To be quite frank, they didn't survive. That's fine because we only want guys who are going to put the work in and that are going to put the work in for their teammates also."
Wednesday sparring nights usually did the trick to separate the men from the boys as well.
"It was amazing to wake up on Wednesday morning and have that much excitement about Wednesday night," Miletich told me before the UFC's 20th Anniversary last November. "Right when your eyes open, you smile and go 'ha, ha, ha, this is my favorite day of the week.'"
If you've talked to Miletich or any of his team, the stories from those Wednesdays have taken on an almost-mythical status over the years, with tales of fighters showing up, getting some tough love in sparring sessions, and then leaving without a word, never to return.
"That happened more than one time," said Miletich. "We actually had a guy who was from a production company that wanted to do a reality show at our gym, and they sent one of the producer's sons, who was a linebacker at Penn State, and he came in to start training with us. And actually, everybody went easy on him. I said let's not kill the guy, he's the son of the producer, and they just wanted to come in and kind of film things, write some notes, and get some more ideas on how to develop the show. And after the first session, this is a Division I linebacker, a rough, strong guy, and he left a note on the door of the gym and said 'goodbye, I can't deal with this, this is insane.' Basically, he even put in the note that he was questioning his manhood. And nobody tried to hurt him, that's the thing."
But it wasn't all brawn in the gym, as Miletich was a scientist of the sport, one of the first wave of true mixed martial artists who knew that those with just one discipline would soon be weeded out of the evolving sport.
"I had been involved in wrestling, boxing and Muay Thai kickboxing for years," he said. "I wrestled from the time I was in kindergarten through college and I watched how different coaches had coached in all those different aspects of sports. I took the good aspects of coaching that I liked, because there were coaches that couldn't convey to me correctly the information that they were trying to get through my head, and there were other coaches that were really good at it. I just kind of modeled myself after them, and tried to explain myself so that they (his fighters) could understand. I think what helped me also is because I learned from so many different people in so many different fighting styles, I could look at it from a wrestler's point of view because I had wrestled; I could look at it from a striker's point of view, and I could explain it from their eyes so they would understand it."
While leading his team to victory after victory, Miletich the fighter attempted comebacks in 2006 and 2008, losing to Renzo Gracie and then knocking out Thomas Denny, and while his spirit was willing to continue, the injuries that still plagued him said no more. He hasn't disappeared from the MMA scene though, as he still provides expert commentary for various events on television, and he remains a tireless advocate for the sport and its fighters. Now, at 48, he can add UFC Hall of Famer to his list of accolades.
Miletich becomes the 12th inductee of the UFC Hall of Fame, joining Mark Coleman, Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Royce Gracie, Matt Hughes, Forrest Griffin, Charles "Mask" Lewis, Chuck Liddell, Stephan Bonnar, Dan Severn, and Ken Shamrock.
Parts of this piece were adapted from the UFC Encyclopedia, 1st edition, by Thomas Gerbasi, as well as past interviews conducted by the author.
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GOP delegates juggle schedules to deal with storm
Tuesday's brunch with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Speaker John Boehner has been moved indoors. Schedules were rearranged to fill an open Monday evening. Sandbags were in place outside the hotel housing the 800-strong California delegation.
Posted — UpdatedThe GOP postponed most of Monday's lineup, cramming four days of events into three with hopes for a major send-off for Mitt Romney on Thursday.
North Carolina's delegates arrived in Tampa excited about the week despite the weather.
"We've had four years of stormy weather, not just in North Carolina but across the country," delegate Scott Stone said. "So a bit of rain, a little bit of wind, that's not going to be a problem. We'll power through it."
Tuesday's brunch with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Speaker John Boehner has been moved indoors. Schedules were rearranged to fill an open Monday evening. Sandbags were in place outside the hotel housing the 800-strong California delegation.
"I think frankly Thursday night is going to be the big show ... and nobody can articulate Romney's message better than Romney," said Jim Poolman, vice chairman of the North Dakota GOP. "Wednesday will be important for Paul Ryan to introduce himself to (the country). And those two nights won't change."
Poolman arrived in the Tampa area Sunday afternoon and was settling in. He said if Monday's opening forum is abbreviated, he will likely stick around his Treasure Island hotel to get some work done.
A revised convention schedule shows a brief Monday session that Romney's chief convention planner said would last no more than five minutes.
Mitch Zak, media director of California's delegation, said a lot of events were being reorganized because of the storm.
A Monday breakfast with speakers such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman was moved to a new room inside the TradeWinds hotel on the water near Tampa. The brunch with Rice, Boehner and California Rep. Darrell Issa, was planned for an outside venue, but will now be held within the hotel.
"They're putting some sandbags up outside and we'll just have to wait and see, and hope Isaac is kind," Zak said, noting that 90 percent of his delegation has arrived.
"The staff and the organizers are focusing on the logistics," Zak said. "Everyone has arrived with a sense of energy. So we're all rolling with this."
The latest weather reports showed Isaac heading farther west of Tampa, but hurricane warnings were issued from the New Orleans area to the Florida Panhandle.
Zak saw no effect on the mood of the convention, or Romney's ability to get his message out.
"We're ready to blow the roofs off on Tuesday night," he said. "We're going to give him one hell of a send-off."
The inclement weather, if anything, will "demonstrate that the Republican Party is resilient and committed to America," Zak added.
Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the California GOP, said the delay "will only result in some pent-up energy but otherwise won't affect us that much."
At least one delegate was concerned about the fast-changing schedule.
Shane Goettle, a North Dakota delegate who lost a GOP congressional primary earlier this year, said he was worried that some Republican Senate candidates would be bumped from the schedule, including his state's nominee, Rep. Rick Berg.
Indeed, the revised schedule released Sunday showed Berg was not among those who kept their speaking slots.
"As a delegate from North Dakota, I'd very much like to see him up there," Goettle said.
Goettle planned to attend a business meeting that has been moved to Tuesday. For the down times in between, he said, "it's an opportunity for our delegation to bond."
Michele M. Mustello and her sister, Marci, drove 18 to 20 hours from Butler, Pa., to Tampa and arrived Sunday.
Mustello said she'd play Monday by ear, depending on how the convention agenda has changed. But for now, none of the luncheons or mixers she planned to attend had been canceled.
Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell, Alan Fram, Bradley Klapper, Michele Salcedo and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Student earns Phi Kappa Phi fellowship to continue research, academic study
Friday, June 28, 2013
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's Bret McCandless, a May 2013 bachelor's graduate in music and social sciences, Overland Park, is a 2013 Phi Kappa Phi fellow.
McCandless, a summa cum laude graduate of the university, is one of 51 students nationwide this year and one of 22 students from Kansas State University in the past 25 years to earn the $5,000 fellowship. McCandless was named the Marjorie Schoch fellow, one of the honor society's nine named fellowships. Selection is based on the applicant's expected success in graduate or professional study as determined by academic achievement, service and leadership experience, career goals and acceptance at an approved graduate or professional program.
"Each chapter of Phi Kappa Phi is only allowed to nominate one student to compete at the national level," said Jim Hohenbary, Kansas State University assistant dean for nationally competitive scholarships. "Even in a strong pool of applicants for that nomination, Bret stood out for his excellent academic record and breadth of course work. He also presented a very articulate vision for his future career as a music librarian and musicologist. It's great news to find out that the national selection committee was as impressed as we were."
The fellowship will be applied to McCandless' first year of graduate study at Indiana University, where he will study library science and musicology in the Jacobs School of Music.
"I really want to help students hone their research skills and explore music through library resources," McCandless said. "I also want to help established music professionals with their research needs."
Music is a way of life for McCandless. He joined his first choir when he was 4 years old and started playing the cello in elementary school. He continued to perform as both a singer and a cellist while at Kansas State University. He is interested in the history of classical music and American musical theater. McCandless interned at the Riley County Historical Museum, researching the history of several musical artifacts.
"Music, like all art forms, really reflects human culture and its historical trends. I am drawn to music because it relates to so many different fields: philosophy, religion, anthropology, history, aesthetics and theater. With the fellowship I will be able to continue my own research desires, which are extremely varied; I am a very curious person," McCandless said.
While a student at Kansas State University, McCandless was a member of Kansas State Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra as the principal cellist, Concert Choir, Collegiate Chorale, Music Student Advisory Council and a member of the Kansas Intercollegiate Orchestra. He was also a choral ambassador, a Presidential scholar, Wabash Cannonball scholar and an orchestral scholar. He composed two pieces selected for the university music program's spring and fall 2011 performances. In April 2012, he received the university's Phi Kappa Phi chapter's undergraduate scholarship and the Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Junior Music Major award.
A graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School, McCandless is the son of Tim and Jo McCandless, Overland Park.
To learn more about competing for future Phi Kappa Phi Fellowships or other scholarships while a student at Kansas State University, contact Jim Hohenbary at email@example.com.


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